The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Lastly, we come to speak of the Sufi sage. Here also, we find two kinds - the path of Rind and the path of Salik. The people called fakirs by Western writers, all belong to the Rind. Their life consists in learning to disregard all worldly things. A person fears most being without these things, and this makes him a hypocrite all his life, for one fears the things of the world. So this is the first thing to learn to disregard. That is why the poetry of Hafiz, Jami, Rumi, Sa'adi, and Omar Khayyam so much speak of wine. The country where they lived and died was Moslem, and wine was despised and abhorred. So they chose that word, and many other words which were representative of things abhorrent to the religion, and used them in their poetry to express the philosophy of human nature, while incurring the displeasure of the people in general. They hid the action of God and of man within these words - wine, jar, glass, roses etc.


 
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